First Republic Aviation Minister,Mbazulike Amechi has urged governors from the seventeen southern states not to back down on the clamour for restructuring and banning of open grazing.
He told reporters at his Ukpor home in Nnewi local government area of Anambra state that this step is necessary to stop the domination of the south under the Fulanisation programme of the federal government.
Said he,“The people of Southern Nigeria and Benue State must rise to save and defend their parts of Nigeria from the fantasy and wild daydream of colonisation, Islamisation and Fulanisation.”
The first republic minister condemned roundly the attempt by some prominent northerners including the Senate President, Ahmed Lawal, to shoot down the resolve of southern governors to ban open grazing and demand for the Good restructuring of Nigeria.
Amechi told reporters that the decision of the 17 governors a fortnight ago after their meeting in Asaba, the Delta State capital, said the decision is necessity to end the wanton killing of their people adding,” they must not shift ground on their position.”
Arguing that the security crisis in Southern Nigeria, was caused by the Fulani adventurers from the North, who must be contained by all means, adding that if there was no such crisis, there would be no need to roll out the measures.
While noting that the southern governors have resolved to contain them, Amechi said; Hear him: “Are there more crises in the South than the North where whole villages are wiped and buildings burnt, where hundreds of young men and women are kidnapped and killed, where Boko Haram has expanded as far down as Niger, Katsina and Zamfara states?
The elder statesmen used the occasion to dispel the allegations that the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and some organisations and persons are planning to burn or do damage to some places or properties in Lagos.
He described the rumour as cheap and blatant falsehood, which some ignoramuses are spreading in the social media.
Amechi said that the Igbo and Yoruba have a filial bond and as such cannot attack each other.
The 92 years old statesman added: “The allegation is malice propaganda. No sane Igbo man would ever think of attacking Lagos because of the filial bond shared by the Igbos and the Yorubas.
“The relationship between the South-East and South-West is filial and bonding. Those behind the propaganda were only trying to cause division.
“In 1966, the late Western Region Governor, Col Adekunle Fajuyi, sacrificed his life for the sake of then Head of State, General Aguiyi Ironsi. There is also the intervention of the then Eastern Region Premier, Dr. Michael Okpara, during the travail of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo while in Calabar Prison.
“This is a cheap and idiotic falsehood. Igbo properties in Lagos are so many, so scattered and so high in value for any Igbo group or organisation to think of destroying.”
Source: Whirlwindnews
